troutdude
Thank you. We will be putting in at Baker Bay; at o'dark thirty. Hopefully no wind in the morning.Others may know better than I, but I believe Baker Bay is the primary stocking site. $5 parking.
Yes sir there are; and some bucketmouths too if I'm not mistaken. But I won't keep any of those residents, due to the mercury in their systems.Nice smallies in Dorena as well as some big Yellow Perch.
Yes sir. That's what we did. We were marking fish, though, from 10-50' deep. So we tried all depths in front of Baker Bay, the Dam, in front of Rat Creek, and by the river inlet. Not a single bite. We tried dodger and worms, dodger and mice tails, flashed sets with training Rooster Tails and Little Cleo's, Wedding Rings, and more. We trolled in S-Curve patterns and were usually at 1.5 mph. Nada. No other boats had any bites. Nor did any of the bankies. We did mark fish--but there is NO way that Dorena got a load of 5,000 trophies last week. Nor the 10,000 trophies supposedly dropped in last month. ODFW needs to get their shiz together--and reactivate their confirmation line!I always do well this time of year on Dorena for trout. I take kids every year when the weather starts to turn nice and we usually get as many as they want. If you're not catching you're probably too deep. I never fish deeper than 10' usually closwr to 5'. Troll til you find them and then stay in that general area.
If you are looking for crappies this place has some bigguns.....don't trust peeps to be honest about them....and some really nice LM Bass too.I also drove over to Cottage Grove Reservoir, after fishing Dorena from 7-10 am. Only about 6 boats were out and 3 or 4 bankies there too. Talked with a couple taking their boat out. No bites for them either.